2016-02-05 - ESCo - Meeting agenda / minutes

Date

29 Jan 2016

Present:

Member	Organization	Role	ESCo role
John Stecher	Goldman Sachs	Managing Director	Board Lead
Lawrence Miller	Symphony LLC	EVP, Global Technology	Symphony Lead
Gabriele Columbro [Administrator]	Symphony Software Foundation	Executive Director	Secretary / Non Voting
Mike Harmon	Symphony LLC	CTO	Symphony Lead

Time	Item	Objectives	Comments	Decisions / Resolutions
20min	Code Contribution process	Gab to present Code Contribution Process (DRAFT) and legal documents.	The meeting line was disturbed. Vote was sent via email.	Contribution process approved on 02/08 with Email Vote.
10min	Code contribution acceptance criteria	Review and enhance Code Contribution Process (DRAFT) (section about acceptance criteria).	Deferred to next meeting.
20min	Ratify working groups composition	Review Working Group - Financial Objects Standardization and Working Group - Desktop Wrapper API and approve composition.	The meeting line was disturbed. Votes was sent via email.	Working Groups ratified on 02/08 with Email Vote.
10min	New working group creation process	Review Working Groups governance page and approve the draft process.	Deferred to next meeting.

The meeting was adjourned to TBC.

This is a record of items to be completed by this meeting:

JohnS --> Send reminder for working groups, keep same deadline (Lawrence can follow up)
Gabriele Columbro / Mike Harmon: start working on a plan for Symphony readiness to open source and contribute
Gabriele Columbro: give password reset ESCo members of their @symphony.foundation address
Gabriele Columbro: policies of electing ESCo members in staggered way
JS: float the idea of ESCo divided in open source / architecture vs. standards working groups
- Gabriele Columbro: check the same with other BOD members
ESCo: Review Code Contribution Process (DRAFT)
JS/Gabriele Columbro: collaborate on acceptance criteria in Code Contribution Process (DRAFT) (or create new page)
ESCo: Review Working Groups governance page

Deferred discussions (ESCo backlog)

The following discussions have been deferred to the next meeting(s) - in decreasing priority order:

Contribution process
Discuss Acceptance criteria
Discuss independent software projects governance (as opposed to working group) (e.g. Project Committers + PMC)
Does the ESCo approve the presence of a Foundation officer as ESCo member? (needs to be ratified at BOD level)
Review and approve Working Groups governance (Working Groups)

JS: float the idea of ESCo divided in open source / architecture vs. standards working groups
- Gabriele Columbro: check the same with other BOD members